FP&A Finance Manager - 9 Month FTC

Reckitt; Slough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Finance Manager - FP&A, where your analytical skills will drive financial strategy and sustainable growth. In this dynamic role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide insights that guide decision-making and enhance profitability. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, the organization offers a supportive environment for your career development. Enjoy competitive benefits and the chance to make a real impact in a global leader in hygiene, health, and nutrition. If you're ready to elevate your career, this opportunity is your next step.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Global share plans

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• Minimum 4-6 years PQE in finance.
• Experience in FMCG and competitive environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze financial data for presentations to senior management.
• Lead the IBP process and ensure accuracy in financial forecasts.

Skills

Business acumen

Budgeting & Forecasting

Productivity Management

Project Management

Financial Reporting

Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Thinking

Education

Qualified ACA/CIMA

Tools

MS Excel

PowerBI

MS Office

Fusion

Job description

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Finance

Our Finance team is not just another department; we're strategic partners and catalysts for change, who use our expertise to drive sustainable growth and create and protect value for Reckitt.With a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and partnership, our inclusive, diverse and energised team breaks down traditional barriers, enabling you to thrive in a dynamic environment where you and your ideas matter.From leveraging insights and analysis to make data-driven decisions - to spearheading sustainable business practices that contribute to consistent and reliable business growth - we are unwaveringly passionate about making a meaningful impact, and always doing the right thing.

About the role

Elevate your career to new heights as the Finance Manager - FP & A within the innovative team at Reckitt. Here's an opportunity to utilise your flair for number crunching to play a crucial role in steering our financial strategy. If you have an eye for detail and a knack for precision, this is your chance to become an instrumental part of our decision-making process. Your insights will help chart our course through complex fiscal landscapes, highlighting pathways to sustained growth and profitability.

Your responsibilities
• Review, analyse and draw insights from actuals, the latest forecast and plan submissions to present to the FD & GM and GFLT across the entirety of the P&L and Balance Sheet.
• Lead and Steer IBP process by setting the direction, key brands/ channels to review linking back to FC/PL presentations, Monthly Finance Reviews with Area and In-Market Action meetings.
• Monthly Finance Review presentations working alongside the FP&A Controller to ensure best guidance is presented to the Area on the region's financial opportunities and risks.
• Lead Forecast/Plan Deck preparation responsible for accuracy across all slides and areas with a key focus on concise yet impactful insights, presentation and storytelling.
• NRVA and GMVA analysis for NEU providing insights on volume/price dynamics and margin performance; ensuring key drivers are analysed, understood and presented to Area.
• Key Fixed Cost analysis including Garden and corporate programs and historical comparisons.
• Understand movements on Cash Flow, NWC and Balance Sheet including key drivers, historical analysis.
• One Data, ensuring accurate financials at all times in PowerBI.

The experience we're looking for

- Qualified ACA/CIMA with minimum 4-6 years PQE

- Commercial finance experience and FMCG desirable.
- Experience in extremely competitive, fast moving environment Industries is appreciated.
- Advanced MS Excel knowledge.
- Good system direction and interaction (Fusion, MS Office, PowerBI, SAC).
- Project management and ability to multi-task.
- Good commercial understanding.

The skills for success

Business accumen, Budgeting & Forecasting, Productivity Management, Project Management, Improve Business Processes, Accounting Principles, Financial Reporting, Finance Analysis and Reporting, Stakeholder Engagement and Influence, Strategic Thinking.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.